Dolin Anton: biography. Criticism of Anton Dolina

Dolin Anton Vladimirovich became famous to the general public after appearing as a film critic in "Evening Urgant" - the most popular TV show of the First Channel. He is assigned to the program a separate section, where he expresses his opinion about the released on the screen kinonovinkah.

Anton Dolin, biography

Anton was born on 23.01.1976 in the capital of the Russian Federation. His mother is Veronika Arkadyevna's Valley, a singer and author who is well known in the bardist milieu, who wrote hundreds of songs.

After graduating from high school No. 67, Anton continued his education at the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Philology. He passed his pre-diploma practice as a school teacher in the Russian language and literature.

Having graduated from the university in the summer of 1997, he enrolled in the graduate school of the Institute of World Literature. Gorky, where by 2000 he defended the candidate's minimum. The thesis was written on the topic "History of Soviet tales of fairy tales".

Dolin Anton has a wife Natalia, with whom she is familiar from school, and two sons: fourteen-year-old Mark and six-year-old Arkady.

His hobbies are music and reading fiction. In his youth, he played keyboards in some rock bands and vocal and instrumental ensembles, was at the same time co-author of some musical works.

Work experience

Since 1997, immediately after graduating, Anton Dolin began his journalistic career. First he worked on the radio "Echo of Moscow" as a correspondent and presenter. From September 2001 until 2005 he worked with the daily Russian socio-political newspaper Gazeta. At first he held the post of regular film critic, later became editor in the department of culture.

Since 2006, Anton Dolin, photo of which is presented in the article, took the post of editor in chief in "Evening Moscow".

His publications were in "Moscow News", "Vedomosti", magazines "Art of Cinema" and "Expert", on the sites of "Russian Journal" and "Grani.ru". They conducted programs in the "Russian News Service" and on the radio "Maximum". Currently, he is known as a film critic, radio broadcaster and journalist on Vesti FM and Mayak radio stations.

Creative activity

Valleys wrote a certain number of books about contemporary cinema. Although some works were written by him for a long time, their actuality has not been lost until today, the real reality is quite clearly reflected in them. The list of his books allows satisfying the demands of a rather large readership.

Many respond as a true literary masterpiece about the book written in 2004, which reveals the work of the Danish film director and screenwriter and winner of the Cannes Film Festival Lars von Trier. The first Russian film critic Dolin Anton analyzed the films and manifestos of this popular modern director. In 2003, Anton visited Trier in the Danish capital, handed him the Golden Eagle for the film "Dogville", which became the best foreign film of the year, and took several frank interviews, which he used in the pages of his essay.

The book is still popular. It is periodically reprinted in different states. For her in 2004, Dolin was awarded the title of laureate of the award, which was established by the Russian Guild of Film Critics and Cinematographers.

Other books AV Dolina

Among other books of film criticism, one can distinguish "Dodge XXI: Essays on the cinema of the new century", published in 2010. The author tries to answer the question, in what position was the cinema in the twenty-first century. Despite the prophecies about the imminent death of this art, people continue to visit cinemas, no economic crises prevent them from buying tickets for new films.

The author discusses these topics with the help of examples from the creative work of famous directors and actors of the "zero" generation. He also talks about the patriarch of the cinema Manuel de Oliveiro, who crossed the hundred-year boundary, and about the Romanian and Malaysian avant-garde, Italian political cinema, and the followers of Russian metaphysical traditions.

In the book "Takeshi Kitano., Childhood Years", published in 2006, Dolin Anton tries to understand how this Japanese film director, the follower of A. Kurosawa, who shot more than fifteen movies, manages to remain a child in the soul. T. Kitano himself calls it "a cancerous tumor that hit the body of Japanese culture".

Another masterpiece

In the world of cinematography the work "Herman: Interview, Essays, Scenario" was highly appreciated. The Guild of Film Experts once again awarded her a prize for the Valley in 2011.

The author of the book tells about the phenomenon of Alexei Herman on the example of his famous films, calling it a significant but little studied phenomenon in the world cinema. The book says not only about the film director himself. A lot of interesting can be learned about his relationship with Konstantin Simonov, Rolan Bykov, Andrei Mironov, Georgi Tovstonogov, Evgeny Schwarz.

The author of the narration spent many hours in conversations with the famous director to find out the mechanism for the birth of a new cinema language. He found out who Alexey Herman's parents were, how his childhood was going in the difficult war years, what trace left his activity in Soviet cinema.

Specific facts from the life of the protagonist and tales, generated by himself, myths and real stories are given. All this resulted in a series of interesting stories in which the memory, time and work of the director are projected into art.

Criticism of Anton Dolina

Fame to the Valley brought not only published by them printed publications about filmmakers Roy Andersen, A. German, Trier, etc., but also critical speeches about foreign and domestic films. With them, he constantly speaks on the radio, in the media, in the Internet community.
Anton Valley's films are not only interested in their emotional component, they analyze in detail the author's concept, the subtleties of the actors' play and much more.

The critic himself says that he is engaged in lighting the hire. Chooses from 3 to 5 most expressive of the released 10-15 movies during the week and highlights them.
In addition, he specializes in tapes that influence the historical development of the art of cinematography.